UK s daily Covid cases creep up by nearly a third in a week to 2,829 amid rapid spread of Indian variant - but deaths drop again with just nine victims
Department of Health data also showed 37.5million Britons have now got at least one dose of the Covid jab
No10 s top scientists warned the R rate which measures Covid s spread could be between 0.8 and 1.1
Office for National Statistics random swabbing found almost 50,000 people had Covid last week
For comparison, there were 40,800 people who were thought to be infected the previous week
Public Health England found Covid cases had dropped in every region except the North West last week
United-kingdom
London
City-of
Brits
North-west
South-africa
Glasgow
Glasgow-city
East-renfrewshire
Brazil
China
Hounslow